Federal agencies are missing out on cost savings and making too many duplicative purchases when it comes to IT and cyber-related investments, according to a new Government Accountability Office report ...

Agencies don’t have the right data and aren’t always checking to make sure they’re not over- or under-purchasing software licenses, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. Congress ...

IT assets are software, hardware or cloud resources that help businesses run their operations. Managing these assets efficiently is crucial for optimizing productivity, reducing costs and ensuring ...

What is IT Asset Management (ITAM)? IT Asset Management (ITAM) has been around for a long time. Yet its function remains as vital as ever: to keep tabs on all hardware components, software and ...

Jim Doe could very easily be you. He is a systems administrator at a large sales and service company with 5,000 employees, more than 100 software applications and dozens of branch offices. Business is ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In the city of Dallas, Interim CIO Brian Gardner needs to manage ...

Everybody has probably at one time had to deal with licenses for proprietary software. We all know they can be a huge headache. This is compounded in the corporate world where we have hundreds or ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

When the U.S. Government licenses commercial software, it generally does so under the same terms as any other commercial software licensee, unless the terms of that license are inconsistent with ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. Although server virtualization has eased the job of network ...